FIRE AT MARANUI.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 603, 3 September 1909, Page 7

FIRE AT MARANUI.

- \ FIVE HOUSES DESTROYED, v.*. The. want' of water tit Maranui was disas- * trousljviljustratcd; yesterday-afternoon when ■ fivefour-roomed cottages in that locality ' w«re.totally'destroyedby : fire. The outbreak v:Wsri'dlficbvorod at v about' 1 o'clock, 'and the fire '.brigade received the.'alarm at 1.3 p.m. The';houso in which'tho fire originated was in Sutherland Road, and was owned, by Alexander, Mill igan ami occupied by Tho?. W. Grosvenir.'J Mr. Grosverior left his .home unoccu- . pied-in the .morning \Vhen. ho went to work.- ' v a ,flre s ■alight,, but it was .appar? ?afp. From Mr,, Milligan's houfe, tho , faro\c-pread to north and south, fanned by a stiifvfsoutherly: wind. On 'the north' three . houseS,wcro:destroyed! >Tho first was owned by llr.-, Alexander Milligan and occupied by Mr.; Hugh M'Kinnon, the second was owned by Mifcs Selina Walker and occupied by Mr. Williams and a number of young men as a ; ."batehV and tho third -was owned by Mr. :■ Robei'fivMartin.and, occupied-,by : Mr. . Frederick' A;- Edmonds, vOn the south one house', :.••••• owned 'by Mr. Arthur Wallace, of Austin ■■■■' v Street, -: and' occupied by Mr. . Goodwin, ' was burnt. From tho three houses on the north ]i:\. side-jmpist r of, tho; contents - had been removed .; : f . j; bef6re l ;the firoVreached thpni, ..but-, the funiitiiT^^;Jtt::ithd.;other •'two buildings was. totally ; • dosttoyed. Mr. Grosvtyior'a furnituro was insured in tho Yorkshire Office for £100, and : Mr. .'Goodwin's was 'also • covered, /but there . ' was'ioliwlicy .held over'tho' furniture of the . : \ other'.'ihreo houses. - Tho insurances on the bilildingi were as follow:—On Mr. Milligan's £200 jn the Commercial -Union.and: Royal respectively; on Mr. Wallace'i.lhouso, £100 ipi tho/South British; ou :-1 Miss..Walker's house, £200 in the National.; . ■ -and;,'6n'.Mr. Martin s house, £400 in the Ocean-Accident.' . -V, ""' / , [liton. outbreak of fire, every thing depends on the-person on the spot and tho appliances at f his,'command. _ Tho Minijjax Hand : Fift . Extinguisher is -simple," effective, and eeonoT. Bate, Nathan's Buildings, Wel- . lington; is the agent.—Advt;] •